PostgreSQL PDO Driver (PDO_PGSQL)PostgreSQL PDO Driver
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PDO_PGSQL is a driver that implements the PHP
Data Objects (PDO) interface
to enable access from PHP to PostgreSQL databases.
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This extension defines a stream resource returned by
PDO::pgsqlLOBOpen.
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General notesbytea fields are returned as streams.
PDO_PGSQL DSNConnecting to PostgreSQL databases
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The PDO_PGSQL Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements, delimited by spaces or semicolons:
DSN prefix
The DSN prefix is pgsql:.
host
The hostname on which the database server resides.
port
The port on which the database server is running.
dbname
The name of the database.
user
The name of the user for the connection. If you specify the user name
in the DSN, PDO ignores the value of the user name argument in the
PDO constructor.
password
The password of the user for the connection. If you specify the
password in the DSN, PDO ignores the value of the password argument
in the PDO constructor.
sslmode
The SSL mode. Supported values and their meaning are listed in the
PostgreSQL Documentation.
All semicolons in the DSN string are replaced by spaces, because PostgreSQL
expects this format. This implies that semicolons in any of the components
(e.g. password or dbname) are not
supported.
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PDO_PGSQL DSN examples
The following example shows a PDO_PGSQL DSN for connecting to
a PostgreSQL database:
The following example shows a PDO_PGSQL DSN for connecting to
a PostgreSQL database via unix socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432:
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